Field: Central Asian Studies, Area/Global Studies

Areas of interest: Anthropology of religion (Islam); Islamic education, translocal Islamic education networks between Central Asia, the Near and the Middle East; transregional Islam and Muslim Mobilities; Religion in migration/mobility, urban religion; Youth (cultures) and family; Postsocialism; Globalization; transnational Islam, Religion and Economy; Central Asian Studies (Tajikistan), Gulf Studies (United Arabian Emirates)

First supervisor of completed PhD projects:

Geographies of afterlife: the futurist imaginations in the lives of Muslim market workers in Moscow (Anton Nikolotov)

First supervisor of current PhD projects:

Reaction of local Egyptian population to the rule of Turkish Mamluk Sultanate (Dilshat Amrayev)

The Lifeworlds of Salar Muslims in Qinghai Considered in the Context of Chinas Belt and Road Infrastructural Project: An Existential-Anthropological Study (Tang Man)